Number of homeless people in UK now outnumbers population of Newcastle
One in every 200 people are now homeless in the UK (Picture: Jerry Syder for Metro.co.uk) The number of homeless people in the UK now outnumbers the population of Newcastle. There has been an increase...
View ArticleSocial mobility for the few or social equality for the many?
Joan Green, Mary Evans and Pat Hotson call for better working-class conditions of life, Alan Healey and Catherine McGuinness want the work of the Social Mobility Commission to continue and 90 council...
View ArticleQueen's Birthday honours 2015: full list
Gongs focus on community COMPANION (AC) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION Professor Kym ANDERSON, Echunga, SA For eminent service to higher education as a leading academic and researcher, particularly in the...
View ArticleWhy the Government Is Directly Responsible for the Rise of Drug-Related...
(Top photo: Jake Lewis) New NHS figures have revealed the number of people admitted to hospitals in England with drug-related mental health problems has doubled in a decade. In 2015-16 there were...
View ArticleNew Year's Honours list 2016 in full
Here is the full list of recipients in the New Year's Honours list 2016. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL Share Go To DBE (Dame) Professor Lesley Jean Fallowfield. Director, Sussex Health Outcomes...
View ArticleNo simple solutions to England’s housing troubles
Simon Jenkins plays down the acuteness of the housing crisis (Look at society’s forgotten: there’s the real housing crisis, 9 February), saying there have been “the same price rises” in Australia and...
View ArticleWhat do Londoners' travel-to-work habits say about them and their city?
A dig through the data about how the capital’s people get to work is revealing and raises interesting questions too...
View ArticleNo simple solutions to England’s housing troubles
Simon Jenkins plays down the acuteness of the housing crisis (Look at society’s forgotten: there’s the real housing crisis, 9 February), saying there have been “the same price rises” in Australia and...
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